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RIP Maude (Bea Arthur)
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/25/bea.arthur.obit/index.html
I still think some of Bea Arthur's best work was just a few years ago at the Pam Anderson roast. I tried to find a video, but couldn't find one yet. Still, "Maude" was really iconic and was still groundbreaking for its time. Hell, even nowadays, I don't think you'll see many sitcoms tackle a subject like abortion.
CNN wrote:Bea Arthur, the actress best known for her roles as television's "Maude" and the sardonic Dorothy on "The Golden Girls," has died of cancer, a family spokesman said Saturday.
She was 86.
Spokesman Dan Watt said that Arthur died Saturday morning at her home in Los Angeles, her family by her side.
She is survived by her sons Matthew and Daniel and grandchildren Kyra and Violet, he said.
No funeral services are currently planned, Watt said, adding that the family asked that donations be made to either the Art Attack Foundation or PETA in lieu of flowers.
Arthur's opinionated Maude first appeared on Norman Lear's "All in the Family" as Edith Bunker's cousin, and was so popular that Lear created a spin-off series.
In the '70s, "Maude" was ahead of the social curve, tackling hot topics not usually mentioned on situation comedies -- pornography, race relations and, in an episode titled "Maude's Dilemma," abortion.
That episode spawned demonstrations and generated hate mail for Arthur -- when Maude and husband Walter (Bill Macy) decided on that episode they were too old to raise a child.
But many saw Maude as an enduring icon for women's liberation -- a big deal for the shy, Jewish girl born Bernice Frankel in New York City.
During the Depression, Arthur's family left the Big Apple and opened a clothing store in Cambridge, Maryland. By the time she was 12, Arthur was nearly 5 feet, 10 inches tall, and self-conscious about her height.
But she masked her insecurity with comedy and eventually returned to New York to study acting. Along the way, she had a short-lived marriage she never spoke about, but she kept the last name -- Arthur.
The young Bea Arthur earned a living singing and doing stage work on Broadway and off-Broadway. Critics delighted in her haughty, serpent-tongued deliveries.
Her first television appearance came in 1951 in a long-forgotten series called "Once Upon a Tune," but she quickly made a name for herself with appearances on "Studio One," "Kraft Television Theatre" and "The Sid Caesar Show."
Arthur drew attention in "Threepenny Opera" on Broadway with Lotte Lenya, but she really turned heads in 1964 originating the role of Yente the Matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof."
In 1966, Arthur won a Tony Award for the caustic Vera Charles in the play "Mame," playing opposite Angela Lansbury in the title role. Eight years later, she reprised the role in the film version opposite Lucille Ball, but by then she was already well-established as Maude.
Arthur left "Maude" in 1978, making television and some film appearances afterward. She starred in a short-lived series, "Amanda's," in 1983 and then joined the cast of "The Golden Girls" in 1985 with Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty.
Her role as Dorothy Zbornak gave Arthur her other major television success as one of four older women living together in Florida. (Getty, the youngest of the four, played Arthur's mother). The role earned Arthur a second Emmy -- the first was for "Maude."
Arthur left the show after Dorothy remarried at the end of the 1991-92 season. White, McClanahan and Getty continued for another season on the show, renamed "The Golden Palace," but the show lasted only one season without Arthur.
Arthur entered semi-retirement after the show ended in 1992, returning to television in sporadic guest appearances and appearing at several celebrity roasts. In the early part of this decade, Arthur appeared in several one-woman shows.
Her last stage appearance was in 2006. Her last television appearance was on "The View" in 2007.
I still think some of Bea Arthur's best work was just a few years ago at the Pam Anderson roast. I tried to find a video, but couldn't find one yet. Still, "Maude" was really iconic and was still groundbreaking for its time. Hell, even nowadays, I don't think you'll see many sitcoms tackle a subject like abortion.
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Rest in peace.
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There's only two Golden Girls left
Also, Pamela Anderson Roast segment
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Bwah?
You're completely oblivious.
This is as good as time as any to fully admit to watching Golden Girls for years and loving it.
Rest in peace.
It shouldn't have even appealed to me but it did.
I did the same thing, started around there, I'd be chilling in the family room playing something on my gameboy, then my mom would start watching Golden Girls every day.
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Fair enough. Beyond the Brandon Bird painting, and the Airheads references, the sum totality of my Bea Arthur knowledge is literally her role on Golden Girls which I haven't seen since I was literally a child.
Just look at it, in all its splendor.
In tribute:
"Where do you come up with this shit?" was a pretty solid line. :^:
I used to watch the show every time on mornings when I was little and nothing else came before going to school...turns out it was pretty entertaining, and it shouldn't have been to an 8 year old. But it was.
RIP
A lot of people on that side of the spectrum have gotten very attached to her, and that kind of snowballed. She's kind of the liberal Chuck Norris.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
The only reference I've ever seen of her in popular culture.
Thank you. This is exactly what I was asking for.
It's sad, but that's honestly the first thing I thought too.
Poor Deadpool, he must be weeping right about now.
It was such a nice day yesterday too and then the news told me this. I think it stings more in that just last week a random channel had an hour long Bea Arthur biography with her talking about her various roles. Then this happens.
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If Bea Arthur wasn't in it.
Same. Which goes to show what good writing and characters can do. I mean, a 10 year old should not be laughing about someone his grandma's age getting embarrassed buying condoms. And yet....
Rest in Peace, Bea Arthur.
"Jeez, lady, did you just get out of prison?"
No one could shout like Bea.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyhlnL0AbmI
Oh lord that is funny.
But, 86 is still a good run. Nice that she lived a full life.
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